What problem does it solve?
The reviewer acts as the final gatekeeper to protect the codebase by enforcing critical checks on every candidate. It evaluates scope compliance, ensures test/metric improvements are preserved, validates runtime equivalence in the presence of hypothesized changes, and assesses the coherence of the explorer's hypothesis and conclusion before a candidate can be merged or promoted to a final pull request.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Gate candidates by scope: reject diffs that touch do-not-touch areas or exceed target_files.
- Validate test coverage and metric improvements to prevent regressions.
- Verify runtime-mode equivalence and coherence between explorer hypotheses and conclusions.
- Emit structured verdicts (APPROVE / REQUEST_CHANGES / REJECT) with a detailed checklist for human review.
Quick Start
Review the candidate diff and issue a verdict with a structured checklist.